Last week before Winter Break

Hi Dear Mom and Dad:

We had a fun filled last week before the holidays! Ask me to tell you about doing some math to decorate my gingerbread man. Thank you so much to all parents who helped us make our decorating day such a success by brining in materials that were needed. We read stories about the gingerbread man. Ask me to tell you all the different versions we read. Some of our gingerbread men even ran away!

We had a great time carolling in they gym with the rest of the school. Ask me to tell you about reindeer dust and the special gift I brought home for you.

We hope everyone has a memorable and safe holiday!!

We ended off the year with a panama party!! It was so much fun.

See everyone in the new year on Tuesday January 3 2017!

Love,
Kindergarten

Mon December 5 - Fri December 9

Dear Mom and Dad

Only one more week left and then it will be winter break!

AM Pajama Day - Thursday Dec 15
PM Pajama Day - Friday Dec 16

What a lovely Christmas Kindergarten Concert we had! We worked really hard learning all of the words and actions. Thank you Mrs. McBride for being such an amazing music teacher! It was a lot of fun. This week, we attended some of the dress rehearsals of the other grades. We really enjoyed listening to them sing.

We had our second baby visits this week with Roots of Empathy. We have been learning about crying and how to recognize what the baby is needing. Through this program, I continue to learn about what it means to help take care of others and how my actions affect others. Ask me to tell you what I noticed that was different about our Roots of Empathy Baby then from our last baby visit.

We participated in the "Fill a Sock" campaign. We learned that there are many people in Calgary who need our help in many different ways during the holidays. Thank you to everyone who donated socks and or brought in a donation to purchase items for this campaign. Every student in the school was able to fill a sock. We worked in partners and added things such as soap, toothpaste, floss, candy cane, toothbrush, kleenex and lip balm. We learned that the holidays is about giving and not all about getting.

This week Team Wonder has been learning all about snowflakes. Ask me to tell you how a snowflake is formed and what the magic number is for snowflakes. We learned that every snowflake forms from a hexagon shape. Did you know that snowflakes are unique just like us? We also did a very special experiment to make our own snowflakes. It is going to be a lovely surprise and gift for you when I take it home next week. Ask me to tell you about all the new centers that we have.

Have a great weekend and stay warm!

Love,
Kindergarten

Housekeeping:

We will be caroling next week. Students are welcome to bring holiday hats on the following days for caroling (optional)!

Monday and Wednesday - AM kindergarten
Tuesday and Thursday - PM kindergarten

Thank you to everyone who has offered to bring in materials for our gingerbread math decorating. If we could have all items brought in by Tuesday please. Then we can see what we may need to buy if there are missing items. :)

Cranston's 2nd Annual Family Christmas Movie Night is happening Thursday, December 15th . Tickets are not available at the door and had to be pre-ordered (Forms were sent home this week). Come and see if the Grinch manages to steal Christmas!!

Nov 28 - Dec 1

Dear Mom and Dad:

• Highlights of the week:
• Fire Drill AM
• Being in the Red Zone
• Learning about numbers 1-5
• Practicing for our concert – please see housekeeping notes below.

Another short week but lots of things happening in kindergarten! This week we talked about the tools we could use in the red zone. Ask me to tell you what these are. We learned that if we are in the red zone, we could use these tools that will get us into the yellow zone, and then to the green zone. The tools we talked about were: Stop, Breath, Think.

AM kindergarten practiced a fire drill. We did great! Ask me to tell you what happens during a fire drill and what my job is.

We have been working on numbers 1-5. In kindergarten, it is important that I have a strong foundation of numbers 1-10 because this will help me build on other skills throughout my learning career. I am working on being able to subitize (recognize a number of objects at a glance without counting), recognizing numbers and being able to count how many objects using my finger and counting each one individually. You can do this with me at home or anywhere outside of school. During dinner, ask me to use my finger and count how many forks, ask me to draw numbers in the air. Show me some fingers and then quickly take it away and see if I can tell you how many fingers you had up.

Here is a great resource! 

ABC YA!

After clicking on the link, scroll down to NUMBERS and you will see tons of games. Some of our favorites are:

• First to Five
• Counting Fish
• Number Bingo
• Numerical Order

Independence is a huge part of kindergarten. As the weather is getting colder and I am wearing winter boots, snow pants, winter coats, gloves, toques, scarves mittens etc. Please help me work on my independence by having me put on all these items by myself. This will really help when I have to do this at school several times in the day. It will also help me with my fine motor skills! 

Love,

Kindergarten

Housekeeping:

Christmas Concert On Monday Dec 5:

We will be singing 4 songs. The concert will last about 15 minutes. There is no dress code and christmas hats are optional. 

Dress Rehearsal:

The dress rehearsal will happen during regular school hours, you do not need to prepare anything for this. If you would like to come watch, you do not need a ticket. Please see the times of the rehearsals on the left hand side of the blog.

Evening Concert:

On the evening of the concert, all 8 kindergarten classes will be participating. The Concert begins at 6:00pm. Please come at 5:45pm and send your child to their classroom. You can then proceed to the gym to find a seat. Please remember to bring your orange tickets and a food item, toy donation or cash donation.

We are sharing where each kindergarten diad will be standing during the concert so you will know where to sit to get the best photos! Students will be on risers.

(GYM LEFT) Team Wonder AM / Team Wonder PM  / Blue-yellow AM  / Blue-yellow PM ( GYM RIGHT)